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Originally posted by Billy Ocean
Disregarding a government in the US is not an option, disregarding US membership in the UN is an option. Your opinion that the US is probably the most guilty of corruption, is just that, opinion. I won't argue that b/c you're entitled, I'll just say my opinion differs. IMO we have lot's of room to be critical of UN corruption because we are the worlds leading financer of the organization and they are trying to cover up this curroption and holding information back from our investigation. The UN is meant to be transparent. I feel a focus on the positive neglects the very real and dangerous negative.
Sure losing your job and trustfund effects your life but not nearly as much as losing your life. The Enron scandal cost people material wealth, the UN Oil for Food scandal cost people their lives. Personally I would have never approved the Oil for Food Program... I would have finished Saddam off years ago.
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First, we have the right to be critical of the U.N, you are absolutely correct. In fact I have many issues with the way this organization functions. That was not the point. The essence of my post was the corruption of the United States in this affair(which you chose to disreguard), and the death and destruction likely brought about in Iraq by the greed and corporate mentality of Haliburton and assoc.
If you really want to play the transparancy card, I would suggest you focus the looking glass on what we have been doing for four years. I have been amazed at the mentality of blind tolerence our own citizenry has shown to what is obviously a corrupt administration. I say obvious, because to anyone with eyes open, and mind clear enough to see the pattern before them, we are living through the most tarnished administration in history.
As far as lives taken by corporate greed, again, look to Haliburton and security (mercinary) forces contracted out to them. You may not realize this but, there have been well over 10,000 civilian deaths in Iraq since the invasion began. Compared with an estimate of just over 9,000 military Iraqi dead. At least a small measure of these people have likely fallen to the "security" forces of our corporate military wing.
It is good to know, by the way, that you would have finished Sadam off years ago. And I am sure you had a better plan to maintain some form of stability in what is arguably the most important state in the region as far as our interests go. Blatant Macho tactics have proven to be disasterous already, as is obvious from the results achieved thus far.